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United States Patent | 5,598,023 |
Matsumoto | January 28, 1997 |
A photoelectric converting apparatus has a semiconductor transistor for accumulating carriers generated by a light excitation into a control electrode region. A portion in the control electrode region other than at least a portion which contributes to an operation of the transistor has impurity concentrations higher than an impurity concentration of the portion which contributes to the transistor operation.
Inventors: | Matsumoto; Shigeyuki (Atsugi, JP) |
Assignee: | Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 339749 |
Filed: | November 15, 1994 |
Sep 11, 1987[JP] | 62-226711 |
Current U.S. Class: | 257/462; 257/291; 257/443; 257/E31.069 |
Intern'l Class: | H01L 031/11; H01L 027/142 |
Field of Search: | 357/30,34,43 257/291,462,443 |
4047217 | Sep., 1977 | McCaffrey | 357/34. |
4649409 | Mar., 1987 | Rappongi et al. | 357/30. |
4794443 | Dec., 1988 | Tanaka et al. | 357/30. |
4800171 | Jan., 1989 | Iranmanesh et al. | 357/34. |
4825274 | Apr., 1989 | Higuchi et al. | 357/43. |
5126814 | Jun., 1992 | Nakamura | 257/83. |